Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!wanginst!ucadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!fouts@AMES-NAS.ARPA From: Martin Fouts Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: ftp Message-ID: <7941@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 13:12:08 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7941 Posted: Fri Feb 1 13:12:08 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Feb-85 05:23:55 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 36 The general ftp discussion really doesn't belong on this mailing list. However, you are directed to see your local ftp guru or peruse documentation available online at the nic. If your only intent is to be a user of ftp, the manual page is sufficent to get you started. If you wish to read general information about internet protocols then A. S. Tannenbaum's book: "Computer Networks" is recommended. If you are interested in details of specific protocols, there are a series of documents available online at the nic, called rfcs. To get started reading rfcs, you should first get a copy of rfc 880 which is a list of all of the rfcs relevent to protocols and rfc 899 which is an index to the preceding 100 rfcs. A template for doing this under 4.2bsd: ftp nic anonymous guest get rfc880.txt rfc880 get rfc899.txt rfc899 quit Since you are on one of the ames-nas machines, you can log into amelia and use a different procedure. The text for any rfc may be obtained by typing the command rfc NNN where NNN is the rfc number. marty ----------